When comparing Banana Pi vs BeagleBone Green Wireless, the Slant community recommends Banana Pi for most people. In the question“What are the best single-board computers?”Banana Pi is ranked 34th while BeagleBone Green Wireless is ranked 39th. The most important reason people chose Banana Pi is:

Banana Pi officially supports Fedora, Arch, Lubuntu and openSUSE. It also can be used with Raspbian (Debian derivative) or Android.

Pros

Pro

Official support for multiple Desktop-version Linux distros

Banana Pi officially supports Fedora, Arch, Lubuntu and openSUSE. It also can be used with Raspbian (Debian derivative) or Android.

Pro

Additional keys for booting or shutting down

Pro

SATA port

Pro

Onboard Wi-Fi

Most models have an onboard Wi-Fi.

Pro

Excellent compatibility with Raspberry Pi software

Other than having a port of Raspbian (the official OS for Raspberry Pi) available for use with full capabilities, Banana Pi can also use many applications that were originally written for Raspberry. One of these is WiringPi, a C/C++ library which gives easy access to Raspberry's I/O with a strong Arduino flavor. But that is just one example of the many open source projects being ported to Banana Pi.

Pro

BeagleBone Black compatible

Compatible with BeagleBone Black software (with the exception of HDMI and Ethernet).

Pro

WiFi and BlueTooth included

WiFi (2.4GHz b/g/n) and BlueTooth (classic and BLE) are both included.

Pro

Includes 4 USB 2.0 host ports

Pro

Open source hardware

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Cons

Con

Bad software support

Con

Does not fit most Raspberry Pi cases, even though it's where it clearly has gotten the inspiration from

The Banana Pi is pretty noticeable a Rapberry Pi lookalike and the name does not hide this information either. Unfortunately it's a bit larger than the Raspberry Pi, making it very hard to fit into most Raspberry Pi cases.

Con

No off-the-shelf camera modules

The A20 chip that the Banana Pi uses lacks a true Camera Serial Interface implementation, instead it uses a parallel camera interface. The problem with this is that there are no off-the-shelf camera modules that support this and can connect to the Banana Pi, but it should be mentioned that the makers of Banana Pi have promised to create a camera module that is supported by it.

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